Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies

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This list contains the 100 finest examples of 20th century filmmaking, according to Taschen. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, epic to musical, western to new wave, all genres are represented in this wide-ranging compendium.

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  1. 3 -

    The Ten Commandments

    1923, in 5 top lists Check
  2. 42 -

    Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

    1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check
  3. 87 -

    De vierde man

    1983 — a.k.a. The 4th Man, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 33 -

    Fanfan la Tulipe

    1952 — a.k.a. Fan-Fan the Tulip, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 9 -

    Sous les toits de Paris

    1930 — a.k.a. Under the Roofs of Paris, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 8 -

    Der blaue Engel

    1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel, in 17 top lists Check
  7. 89 -

    Dead Ringers

    1988, in 12 top lists Check
  8. 1 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  9. 79 -

    Die Blechtrommel

    1979 — a.k.a. The Tin Drum, in 14 top lists Check
  10. 56 -

    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
  11. 21 -

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  12. 67 -

    Deliverance

    1972, in 15 top lists Check
  13. 12 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  14. 20 -

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  15. 30 -

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
  16. 31 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  17. 80 -

    Mad Max

    1979, in 13 top lists Check
  18. 46 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  19. 68 -

    Cabaret

    1972, in 24 top lists Check
  20. 55 -

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  21. 95 -

    Face/Off

    1997, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 16 -

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  23. 83 -

    Fitzcarraldo

    1982, in 14 top lists Check
  24. 39 -

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  25. 54 -

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  26. 15 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  27. 59 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  28. 38 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  29. 2 -

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  30. 37 -

    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955, in 16 top lists Check
  31. 86 -

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  32. 40 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  33. 90 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  34. 76 -

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  35. 23 -

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  36. 100 -

    Wo hu cang long

    2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check
  37. 98 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  38. 88 -

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  39. 5 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  40. 72 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  41. 92 -

    Chung Hing sam lam

    1994 — a.k.a. Chungking Express, in 19 top lists Check
  42. 96 -

    Festen

    1998 — a.k.a. The Celebration, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 91 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  44. 32 -

    High Noon

    1952, in 18 top lists Check
  45. 73 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 29 top lists Check
  46. 94 -

    L.A. Confidential

    1997, in 27 top lists Check
  47. 48 -

    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
  48. 51 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  49. 63 -

    Midnight Cowboy

    1969, in 22 top lists Check
  50. 65 -

    Morte a Venezia

    1971 — a.k.a. Death in Venice, in 13 top lists Check
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